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TIL the NHS in Scotland shows a level of how many days blood they have left in stock.

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0bgM TIL in terms of health, rich Americans are no better off than poor Britons.
NXgm8 TIL that 1 in 4 entrepreneurs in the US is foreign-born, and the biggest demographic shift toward entrepreneurship since 1996 has occurred in people aged 55 to 64 and the biggest decline has occurred in people aged 20-34.
dXgd TIL the actor who played Smeagol in the “Lord of the Rings” developed his voice after watching his cat cough up a hairball, then mimicked the sound and added words.
e0rdb TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.
vlD8 TIL the last recorded words to come from inside the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were, “Uh oh.”